Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0376, USA.
Top Cogn Sci. 2012 Jan;4(1):21-34. doi: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2011.01163.x. Epub 2011 Oct 24.
In some areas of cognitive science we are confronted with ultrafast cognition, exquisite context sensitivity, and scale-free variation in measured cognitive activities. To move forward, we suggest a need to embrace this complexity, equipping cognitive science with tools and concepts used in the study of complex dynamical systems. The science of movement coordination has benefited already from this change, successfully circumventing analogous paradoxes by treating human activities as phenomena of self-organization. Therein, action and cognition are seen to be emergent in ultrafast symmetry breaking across the brain and body; exquisitely constituted of the otherwise trivial details of history, context, and environment; and exhibiting the characteristic scale-free signature of self-organization.
在认知科学的某些领域，我们面临着超快的认知、精细的上下文敏感性以及测量认知活动中的无标度变化。为了取得进展，我们建议需要接受这种复杂性，为认知科学配备用于研究复杂动力系统的工具和概念。运动协调科学已经受益于这种变化，通过将人类活动视为自组织现象，成功地规避了类似的悖论。在这种情况下，行动和认知被视为在大脑和身体中超快的对称性破缺中涌现出来的；由历史、上下文和环境的琐碎细节精细构成；并表现出自组织的无标度特征。
